Just because a man has a phobia against commitment and love
in general does not make him a rogue. After all if a woman
has these same issues does that mean she is a slut. Neither
Sam Carson nor Ally Giordano easily fit into these
categories. But both share some very deeply seated problems
that have molded them into who they are now as single
adults. Sam has devoted his life into becoming a self-made
man and a force in his industry. He has all the trappings of
a rich handsome bachelor including a new gorgeous woman on
his arm each month. You see he does have some rules â€" one
being that he is honest with each new flavor of the month â€"
no elongated affairs for Sam.
Ally has kept herself
rather separated from life â€" devoting herself to her
grandmother and her students. With a carefully chosen
wardrobe she has successfully managed to avoid attracting a
man who would expect an emotional tie. Her first impression
of Sam was that he was absolutely gorgeous and then she
quickly dismissed him as tall dark and dissolute. After all
he had arrived via horse drawn carriage with Granny Donny
who was for some reason pretending to be an English lady and
introduced Sam as the Duke who has come to marry Princess
Ally. Obviously something rather odd was happening here.
Ally worried over whether this stranger was a con man out to
pull something over her very confused grandmother. But
confused or not grandma was able to see something of value
in Sam and obviously trusted him.
Teaming up with
Sam and the carriage driver Ally sets out for Long Island.
Ally is intent on bringing Granny home to hopefully recover
her senses but Sam is intent on infusing fun and fantasy to
entertain her grandmother who is becoming more and more
delusional each day. Granny Donny raised Ally with a great
deal of love and devotion and it was Ally’s turn now to take
care. Only the adventure turns out to be a reawakening of
feelings long buried for both Sam and Ally. The question
isn’t whether they will fall in love. It’s whether they will
take a chance at love.
Ingeniously intertwining captions from a Victorian romance
novel Diana Holquist brings us a very witty and smart
romantic modern tale. At the foreground is the premise that
sometimes it is easier to step out of reality to get a taste
of life. Fantasy has a magic quality with the promise of a
happy ending. Real life is messy with no such guarantees.
Holquist allows her characters to develop in a fantasy but
brings them back to reality when it is time for them to get
on with their lives.
Commitment-phobic Sam Carson has only dated model-gorgeous
women. But one stolen kiss from a plain-Jane schoolteacher
and he's hell-bent on stripping away her floral dresses and
teaching her the art of being bad. If only her good-girl
ways didn't make him want to be a better man...
Ally Giordano is at the end of her rope. Her beloved
grandmother actually believes that she's living in her
favorite romance novel in Regency England and Ally doesn't
have the heart to set her straight. But now Granny Donny's
last wish is for a retreat to the country and Ally can't
refuse her...until she demands that Sam accompany them. And
though his smiles turn her knees into jelly, Ally knows
better than to trust a playboy...and she definitely knows
better than to try to change one. Or does she?
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